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The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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Never mistake motion for action.

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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

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People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

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A sheep in sheep's clothing.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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The covers of this book are too far apart.

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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